WPlite

Wordpress, without the fat.

Update

WPlite for WordPress 2.8.4 is available here.

Preamble

You make web sites and you love Wordpress to the death. Someone (say, Joe) is asking you to do a web site of a few pages, and you want to use Wordpress so that Joe can maintain the web site by himself.

The problem is, Wordpress looks too complicated for Joe, and anyway, Joe wouldn’t need all the junk that Wordpress has to offer.

WPlite to the rescue

WPlite (“Wordpress lite”) is a Wordpress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the Wordpress administration menu—even the Dashboard. On top of that, you can also hide post meta controls on the Write page, so as to simplify the editing interface.

The result: a minimal, Zen-like Wordpress administration area.

Screenshots

Version 1.2

Version 1.0 – 1.1

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Reviews

Thank you to all who used and reviewed my plugin.

Download

Note: With the availability of WPlite on the Wordpress.org Plugin Directory from 16 May 2008 onwards, the original download counters for versions 1.0 up to 1.2 have been disabled. You can see the latest download stats here.

1.3.1 – 18 July 2008

  • BUG FIX: Removed unnecessary usage of serialize()/unserialize()
  • NEW: Compatibility with Wordpress 2.6
  • NOTE: You might have to set the options again, because of the bug fix.

1.3 – 9 June 2008

  • NEW: By popular demand, an “Administrators see everything” option

1.2 – 15 May 2008 – 9 downloads [counter disabled]

  • NEW: Support for Wordpress 2.5
  • NEW: Disable by feature
  • NEW: WPlite options page bookmarklet

1.1 – 29 March 2008 – 254 downloads [counter disabled]

  • BUG FIX: Submission of some forms resets the WPLite settings. (Thank you, OLDSKULL! Comment noted.)
  • WARNING: This plugin has not been tested with Wordpress 2.5.

1.0 – 3 March 2008 – 539 downloads [counter disabled]

  • Initial release

Usage

  1. Ensure that you’re running the latest version of Wordpress.
  2. Install and activate the plugin.
  3. Configure the plugin at Options -> WPlite

This plugin is licensed under the GPL.

Questions, bugs, suggestions, comments

Below.

Hire me

I can help you improve your web site. To have a chat, please contact me at introspectif at nanogeex dot com

Donations

Thank you for using WPlite. If you found this plugin useful, please consider donating to my PayPal account. It’s a really special way of saying thanks :)

Donors

Many thanks to all who have donated!